Improvement in boots and shoes



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JoHNMA-CINTOSH AND WILLIAM BOGGETT, 0F LGNDON, GREAT BRITAIN.

Laan Patent Np. 93,103, daad .my 27,1869; undated .my 22, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom Iit may concern: y

Be it known that we, JOHN MACINTOSH and W11.- LIAM BOGGETT, ofLondon,inthe county of Middlesex, and Kingdom of Great Britain, have inventedcertain Improvements in Shoes, Ste.; and we do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description' 0f the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention consists in the combination, with a shoe or gaiter, ofcertain elastic bands, arranged as fully described hereafter, so as todraw togetherthe two sides ofthe vamp or upper, and close the openingbetween them, while the bands are protected from the abrasion to which'elastic bands or laces, -applied in the ordinary manner, are liable.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to make and vuse ourinvention, we will now proceed to describe the construction of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part ofthis invention, and in whichi Figures 1 and 2 show suicient of theuppers of a shoe and of a gaiter to illustrate our improvement;

Figure the upper of a gaiter ofa different pattern; and a Figure 4, aportion of the upper of a shoe, laced in the ordinary manner.

. .A is the upper or vamp of a shoe or gaiter, which is divided at thefront, or at one or both sides, as usual, and across the opening thusformed extend elastic strips or fillets a, the ends of the latter beingintroduced between the leather and lining atvthe sides of the opening,shown indotted lines, where they are secured by stitching or otherwise.

The fillets are of such a length as to permit the sides ofthe upper tobe separated su-iciently to allow the foot to be introduced orwithdrawn, and so elastic as to draw together these sides after theinsertion or withdrawal of the foot.

It will be seen that when the two sides of the vampI aredrawn together,the fillets or bands are entirelycovered,'and are thus protected fromthe action of j water and dust, and from that abrasion to which clas'tic laces extending over the face oi' the vamp, as shown in iig. 4, areliable.

One side of the vamp may overlap the other t'o form a iiap,at the edgeof .which buttons are secured, as shown in the drawing, the fillets inthis case being at# tached to the under side of the flap at-a distancefrom the edge of the same, or to the buttons.

The fillets are in some eases made of vulcanized sheet-rubber combinedwith elastic fabric, or ofstrips of rubber covered with fibrous threadsby braidingmachines. In the latter case, threads of d iierent colors, orof different materials, as threads of silk and metal, or metallicthreads alomgmay be used.

Without continingourselves to any'particnlarform of boot or shoe,

We claim as ourv invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Ashoe or gaiter having elastic bands or fillets applied to and connectingthe opposite sides ofthe vamp or upper, so as to be concealed when theedges of the said sides are in contact, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this application, inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN MACINTOSH. IVILLIAM BOGGETT.

Witnesses:

GEORGE B. LEWRY, FREDERIC WILLOUGHBY,

Clerks to Messrs. Obmerfowl and Girdlcr,

London.

